Associations to the word «Parlous»
Verb
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Wiktionary
PARLOUS, adjective. Attended with peril; dangerous; risky.
PARLOUS, adjective. Dire, terrible, appalling.
PARLOUS, adjective. (obsolete) Dangerously clever or cunning.
PARLOUS, adverb. (archaic) Very, extremely.
Dictionary definition
PARLOUS, adjective. Fraught with danger; "dangerous waters"; "a parlous journey on stormy seas"; "a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat"; "the precarious life of an undersea diver"; "dangerous surgery followed by a touch-and-go recovery".
Wise words
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing
in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in
the hands of one who knows how to combine them.